Cape Canaveral Facility Could Soon Serve as Re-Entry Site for Dream Chaser Spacecraft Written 10 February 2021
Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser in an illustration. | Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.
The Denver Post reports that on Monday, Sierra Nevada Space Systems announced that the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida has been granted a license by federal authorities to be used as a re-entry site for commercial spacecraft. As Sierra Nevada prepares the Dream Chaser commercial spacecraft “for a planned 2022 flight to the International Space Station, the company is celebrating the prospect of future landings” in Cape Canaveral. The company is still working with the FAA to “obtain licensing to operate Dream Chaser re-entries in Florida, the company said in Monday’s release.”
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